Race Review

This work is being conducted within the context of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-24) and in the wake of calls by grassroots communities of reparatory justice interest, students-led organizations and scholar-activists for higher education institutions (HEIs) to begin repairing the harms caused by institutional ties to the enslavement of African peoples and colonial oppression, and their legacies today. Each HEI is taking a different approach to their reparative justice programmes. Edinburgh is therefore at a critical point, and in a unique position, to do something different. Restoring the dignity of racially minoritized peoples from multiple Black (including African, African-descended, Caribbean) and Asian communities and other First Nation peoples requires an action plan designed to both recognize the past while providing a vision for institutional and cultural development in the future. The dataset comprises raw and anonymised responses from two questionnaires, cleaned and anonymised data, data analyses and results, the documents used to obtain ethical approval for the questionnaires, and files used to recruit participants for the questionnaires.